The Committee intends also to make up lists of good books cover- 
ing special topics, which it hopes will be useful to members desiring 
to collect a practical library. The Committee already has given out 
a list of approved books covering the general field. 
Mrs. Brewster, as editor of the Bulletin, wrote to seven publish- 
ing houses asking if they would send the Committee on Garden Lit- 
erature their garden books for review. Four answers in the affirmative 
have been received, the others not responding at all. 
Six books so far have been received from this source. The other 
books that have been reviewed have been suggested by members of 
the Committee. 
Nine books have been reviewed during the last year, and a list 
published of the hundred best books for a garden library. 
Mrs. Frasier and Mrs. Wait resigned from the Committee on 
account of other pressing work. Mrs. Stout of the Short Hills Garden 
Club and Mrs. George Higginson of the Garden Club of Illinois, have 
consented to fill their places. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Margaret Day Blake, 
(Mrs. Tiffany Blake) Lake Forest, Illinois. 
Report on the 
Standardizing of Color and Color Terms 
for Use in Gardens 
An informal meeting was held in Mr. Clarke's studio late in 
February. Present, Mr. Clarke, Mrs. Brown, Miss Sargent. 
Mr. Clarke showed his plan for a color scale which seemed very 
simple and practical. Mrs. Brown consented to see various printers 
and color men to inquire the cost of making such a scale and the pos- 
sibility of getting the colors correctly rendered. She has since reported 
that not only was the price prohibitive, but that the New York 
printers were unwilling to guarantee tones of standard colors. Mrs. 
Brown therefore considers Dr. Ridgway's chart the best to adopt at 
the present time, the ideas of the latest accepted authorities, Torrey 
and Helmholtz being followed in it. Chevreul's chart, known as the 
French chart, is the most complete, and has the advantage of offering 
one color at a time, this being less confusing; but his system is very 
difficult to all but scientists, and he founds it on Newton L. Brewster's 
theories, which are now generally discarded. The chart of Prof. 
Munell is very complete, and he advocates the use of a number for 
